Karlcfolkes's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by karlcfolkes  —  There are currently 475 poems total — keep up the great work!

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A Flame of Love Aloft a Mountain Peak

She stands engraved in memory as a flame.

Her friendly spirit soaring on a hilltop high.

Immensely shining bright, aloft a mountain top.

Kindling with her brethren in celestial realms.

Hovering now as a guardian angel of us all.

Above...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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The Cultured Human Tongue

In a three-line Tercet poem, called “The Barbed Tongue,” I wrote as follows:


  “Your tongue is a sword.

  Therefore wield it with wisdom.

  Otherwise shield it.”

In that haiku poem, I showed the tongue as displaying two opposing...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 13 days ago
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The Barbed Tongue

Your tongue is a sword.
Therefore wield it with wisdom.
Otherwise shield...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 15 days ago
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Nested Heteronyms of the Dreamworld

The search for Self and the fluidity of ego-self is endless. This search for self is tied eternally to the notion of otherness.

The notion of ‘otherness’ is evoked by Pessoa, Borges, Jung and curiously enough by other dreamers, like the...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Heteronomous Poet Pessoa and Others Like Him

Portuguese giant,
Heteronomous poet,
Mercurial mind.

A Modernist dreamer he is.
Like Luis Borges himself.
Argentine poet.

A man of two sides.
The private and the public personas.
The “Yo y El Otro” (I and Other).

And Pessoa, a...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 2 months ago
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All Outcomes Are by the Grace of God

The apostle Saint Paul once declared, in First Thessalonians 5:18, the following: “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”


  This benevolent appeal suggests to us that we should take all things in their...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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The Role of Opposites in Human Behaviors

Enantiodromia (from Greek ‘enantios’ meaning ‘opposite’ and ‘dromos’ meaning ‘running course’) has been widely described as “the tendency of things to change into their opposites, especially as a supposed governing principle of natural cycles; and...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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You and I or You and Me

You are the person I am referred to,
when someone else is talking about me;
made as an object, when I would rather be the subject.

Concatenated by syntactic rules, to often be the predicate.
Relegated as an afterthought of egoistic I.
As a...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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The Enantiodromia Phenomenon in Human Affairs

How feverishly diligent the unconscious works to restore order in human behaviors; to restore things to their ‘rightful’ places; to a balance beyond that of any outward deliberate effort; in spite of any form of any preconceived actions or conniving...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Poetry For the Deaf

Poetry for an audience of the deaf…
an emotive symphony of movement and gestures…
The silent tympanic motion of nimble fingers…
drumming their melodic orchestra of gestures; radiating outwards in the air.

Poetry for the deaf; a linguistic...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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The Maelstrom of Human Society

As long as the supreme deity is ruled exclusively as male…
The distaff side of humankind will be forever viewed as being in the pale.

As being outside the boundaries of what is visualized as ‘the norm’…
Removed from what all human societies...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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The Fall of a Wounded Lancelot (A Satire)

The honeymoon’s over; so too the romance;
of an aspiring candidate; a man named Vance.

He came out, sword prancing; with all hope to advance.
Sadly, no one admired his Boogie-Woogie-Bounce dance.

It seemed to admirers a real zany entrance.
...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 3 months ago
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A Lie Manufactured as the Truth

Musky-like rodents tampering savored fruit,
to wit, their virulent allies to recruit;
so is a lie manufactured as the truth;
by AI vermin that’s patently uncouth.

Intended to deceive; with aim to loot;
rob, steal, confuse — the point is moot....

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 3 months ago
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Our Mind is Imaged in the Cosmos

As Mind, we are imaged in the cosmos; and the cosmos is imaged in us.

 “The totality of the human mind,” is what we call the psyche; a composite of conscious light and of unconscious darkness; of waking moments; and of the mind, as thought itself,...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Psyche’s Universal Call For Healing

The human psyche is the source of all numinous experiences; religious, spiritual, or psychological. It is up to us to heed its eternal call. It is not bounded by time or space; by language or by culture; by race, color or creeds.

The psyche...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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A Canopy of Race

“Woe is man that he must invent a canopy of race!”

Having the opposites resident within ourselves, we are at war perpetually with ourselves, projecting our inner battles outwardly onto others who must fight their own battles within their inner...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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O Liberty Enlightening the World!

O icon of “Liberty Enlightening the World” in New York’s harbor!

Lady Liberty, your torch in your right hand, uplifts us all towards the heavens.

A beacon of light you are, to release the entire world from darkness.

Designated as a...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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A Parody on the 2024 US Presidential Race

Who indeed would ever imagine it.
Trump as candidate is much bidden.
And Biden as the chosen is trumped.

This is poetry ‘bout the fit.
Naught to stage viewers is hidden.
Especially if Biden were dumped.

Whether or not he should sit.
For...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 3 months ago
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A War For Our Mind

We live in today’s world of disinformation.
We are dissed to the left, dissed to the right, and dissed to the center.

We live in a world of some really bad actors.
They have their Shakespearean-like entrances and exits.

And in their acts of...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 4 months ago
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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Debacle

O the irony of modern U.S. politics.
So infused with so much bipartisan tricks.
While Trump, historically by rank, is bidden.
His many undertakings are still yet hidden.

Such is the nature of this incoming election.
Evoking to its citizens...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 4 months ago
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Fiwi Jamiekan Labrish (Jamaican Creole)

A ful taim wi rekagnaiz seh fiwi Jamiekan piipldem av tuu langwijdem wid Hinglish an Jamiekan.

Fi aal a Jamiekan yaadi pipldem, di langwij weh dem nuo di bes iz Jamiekan, dou mous a di pipldem kaal it Patwa siek a di Hinglish bakramandem weh no...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 4 months ago
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A Prayer For All Fathers

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Our fathers too who dwell on Earth, hallowed also be your names.

For fathers are the seeds to nourish growth.
To care, protect, and shelter provide.

To love and cherish those of their...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 5 months ago
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Our Digitus Secundus Manus

Praise be to you, O Digitus Secundus Manus, Finger of Man.
Magisterial is your earthly royal demeanor, O finger of man.
Upholding the office of a magistrate, an emperor or a king; deferring only to The Finger of God.

Hail to thee, most...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 5 months ago
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Zeitgeist Spirit

Zoom in now on the nature of the Zeitgeist Spirit.

Etched in our veins and imaged in our every thought, word and deed is Zeitgeist.

Its archetypal signature is ingrained and manifested in every aspect of our lives; and memorized in death.

...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Our Zeitgeist Culture: A Meditation

The past, present and future of our zeitgeist culture is gleaned in our carbon footprints as free-will thinking evolutionary Homo sapiens.

As the world turns, so does all humanity likewise turn. We live in an ever-turning turbulent transitory...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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We Are the Ticktock of the Universe

Consider this, my friend.
Reflect on it with great intention.
Our brain provides images
of what our mind imagines.

Our brain is therefore like a camera
whose lenses are the human eyes;
whose ears provide the audio feed
by which we hear.

...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Unsere unbeugsame menschliche Beständigkeit

Warum wir als Menschen existieren:

Geboren, um die Sterne zu erben, ist das Wesen unserer Einzigartigkeit in der Galaxie unser unbesiegbare menschlicher Geist; unsere Präsenz und Beständigkeit als Homo sapiens im Milchstraßen-Universum.

Wir...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 6 months ago
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Our Indomitable Human Permanence

Each of us is a piece of time, measured out to all eternity. And no piece, no matter the cut or slice, is any larger or smaller in its entirety than the whole, whereof it constitutes the sum.
Each of us occupies a space in time, with our space and...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 6 months ago
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The Thought That Lingers: Part Twelve

The passionate thought that lingers in my head
The ever lingering festering thought
Is that of knowing who I truly am
The corporeal me of flesh inhabiting a soul
The thought of why I’m here; and what I’m meant to be; and to become.

Beware ye...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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The Thought That Lingers: Part Eleven

The thought that lingers in our times…
Is that of war; in times of peace.
Wars of every culture…
Wars of tribes, wars of nations.
Wars too of religion.

Then there are wars of gender, wars of hatred.
And there are always wars of passion.
...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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added 6 months ago
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